HP Receives Top UNIX Ranking from D.H. Brown; HP-UX 11i Rated No. 1 UNIX Operating System.Business Editors and High Tech Writers PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2002 HP (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HPQ HPQ Hewlett-Packard Corporation (NYSE) HPQ High Priority Queue ) today announced that its HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. 11i operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. has been rated the No. 1 UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) operating system in a recent report from industry analyst firm D.H. Brown Associates, Inc. Entitled "2002 UNIX Function Review," the report evaluated the industry's top UNIX operating systems according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. an extensive and stringent set of criteria for enterprise customers. HP-UX 11i garnered the top spot in all five of the report's categories against competitive offerings that included Sun's Solaris 8 and IBM's AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. 5L operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . HP-UX 11i led the D.H. Brown scorecard in reliability, availability and serviceability Reliability, Availability and Serviceability is a computer hardware engineering term. It originated from IBM to advertise the robustness of their mainframe computers. The concept is often known by the acronym RAS. ; Internet and Web application services See ASP and Web services. ; directory and security services; systems management; and scalability. "HP's focus and investment in HP-UX have effectively moved this key operating environment to the forefront of the UNIX industry," said Tony Iams, vice president, D.H. Brown Associates. "In addition to taking the top overall spot in our report and securing an unprecedented top ranking in every category, HP-UX had a particularly strong lead in the Internet and Web application services category, and it surged forward in the intensely competitive reliability, availability and serviceability category." HP-UX is a proven operating system that offers the enterprise market world-leading functionality. HP packages UNIX operating systems as integrated operating environments, providing customers with business-critical capabilities to improve their operational efficiencies and reduce their total cost of ownership. With HP-UX 11i, HP provides customers a clear and stable path to the future by offering complete binary compatibility between the PA-RISC (Precision Architecture-RISC) A proprietary RISC-based CPU architecture from HP that was introduced in 1986. It is the foundation of HP's 3000 and 9000 computer families. See IA-64. and Intel(R) Itanium(TM) architectures. A broad range of independent software vendors support HP-UX, allowing HP's enterprise customers to run key applications that are not available on other operating systems. "HP-UX 11i is the only operating system that offers the end-to-end performance and scalability needed to handle the wide range of demanding applications on the market," said Mark Hudson, worldwide marketing manager, HP Business Critical Systems. "The results of the D.H. Brown report further validate the strength of HP-UX 11i and clearly reflect HP's ongoing commitment and investment in HP-UX." HP Tru64 UNIX, now an integral part of HP's UNIX portfolio, also showed strong results in the report, tying HP-UX for the No. 1 spot in the scalability and systems management categories. In addition to continuing to improve the HP-UX advanced feature set, HP plans to bring key features from HP Tru64 UNIX into HP-UX, including TruClusters and Advanced File System capabilities. "Customers can continue to invest with confidence in HP Tru64 UNIX," said Hudson. "By combining the industry's leading UNIX operating system with a broad product portfolio that ranges from the smallest HP blade server to the largest HP Superdome server, HP is providing enterprise customers unmatched value. And with the addition of key features from HP Tru64 UNIX, HP-UX will be absolutely unstoppable." D.H. Brown Associates is a leading research and consulting firm providing strategic analysis, assessment and evaluation of technologies, products and market trends in the information industry. D.H. Brown's 2002 UNIX Function Review evaluated the industry's leading UNIX operating systems as of Dec. 31, 2001. More information on the complete report is available at http://www.dhbrown.com. About HP HP is a leading global provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers and businesses. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. HP merged with Compaq Computer Corp. on May 3, 2002. The merged company had combined revenue of approximately $81.7 billion in fiscal 2001 and operations in more than 160 countries. More information about HP is available at http://www.hp.com. UNIX is a registered trademark of the Open Group. HP-UX Release 10.20 and later and HP-UX Release 11.00 and later (in both 32- and 64-bit configurations) on all HP 9000 computers are Open Group UNIX 95 branded products. Intel is a registered trademark and Itanium is a trademark of Intel Corp. in the U.S. and other countries and is used under license. This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include the possibility that the market for the sale of certain products and services may not develop as expected; that development of these products and services may not proceed as planned; and other risks that are described from time to time in HP's Securities and Exchange Commission reports, including but not limited to HP's annual report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. , as amended on January 30, 2002, for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2001, HP's quarterly report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the quarter ended January 31, 2002 (as filed with the SEC on March 12, 2002) and subsequently filed reports. If any of these risks or uncertainties materializes or any of these assumptions proves incorrect, HP's results could differ materially from HP's expectations in these statements. HP assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements. |
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